Leviticus 25:16

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The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 25:27 : 27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
  • Lev 25:51 : 51 If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,

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  • Lev 25:11-15
    5 verses
    91%

    11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

    12Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you– you may eat its produce from the field.

    13Release of Landed Property“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

    15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

  • Lev 25:50-53
    4 verses
    79%

    50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

    51If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,

    52but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

  • Lev 25:27-30
    4 verses
    78%

    27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

    28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

    29Release of Houses“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.

    30If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

  • Lev 27:16-19
    4 verses
    75%

    16Redemption of Vowed Fields“‘If a man consecrates to the LORD some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.

    17If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,

    18but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

    19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price and it will belong to him.

  • Lev 25:20-25
    6 verses
    75%

    20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

    21I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,

    22and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year’s produce– old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year’s produce, you may eat old produce.

    23The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.

    24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

    25“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.

  • Lev 25:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

    4but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest– a Sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.

  • Lev 19:25
    74%

    25Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 23:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Sabbaths and Feasts“For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

    11But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

  • Lev 27:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the LORD.

    24In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

    25Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.

  • Lev 25:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

    8Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release“‘You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.

  • Lev 25:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

  • Lev 25:17
    72%

    17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 25:37
    71%

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Deut 14:22
    71%

    22The Offering of Tribute You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

  • Lev 26:5
    71%

    5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

  • Lev 25:45
    70%

    45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

  • Deut 25:15
    70%

    15You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the LORD your God is about to give you.

  • Ps 44:12
    70%

    12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

  • Deut 15:1
    70%

    1Release for Debt Slaves At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

  • Lev 25:33
    70%

    33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem– the sale of a house which is his property in a city– must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

  • Exod 23:16
    70%

    16“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

  • Lev 27:13
    70%

    13If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, he must add one fifth to its conversion value.

  • Deut 15:14
    69%

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

  • Lev 25:47
    69%

    47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

  • Lev 26:10
    69%

    10You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new.